‘Everything he touched became better’: Texas Rep. Gene Wu remembers friend, mentor Sylvester Turner
Turner was a longtime mayor of Houston, a Texas representative and a U.S. congressman.
Turner was a longtime mayor of Houston, a Texas representative and a U.S. congressman.
“Before Texas was Texas, Texas was Mexico. So before there was a cowboy, there was a vaquero.”
NPR reported that after April 2, Trump may move forward with “reciprocal tariffs” on products from many other nations.
State Rep. Don McLaughlin was mayor during the Robb Elementary shooting in 2022.
According to Turner’s family, he was taken to the hospital after President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress and was later released. He died at approximately 5:45…
Users of the image-sharing site saw violent content, while Apple’s texting platform transformed the word “racist” into “trump.”
Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.
Mason LaDue raises a few dozen cattle in Leon County, about 90 minutes east of Waco. But before that, he wrangled rappers like Wiz Khalifa and Post Malone.
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